Two oceans-apart aural collage masters team up to flambe their best dashes of spice across this pair of tenderized and marinated beef steaks. Toronto’s resident evil Fleshtone Aura (a.k.a. Andrew “No C” Zukerman) has been summoning strange sensations for over a decade now with duo du jour Gastric Female Reflex. He’s undergone a plethora of personality crises with memorable recording identities like Various Artists, Untitled (to which his previous Chocolate Monk CDR was accredited), DJ Longhorn Grille and Charles Balls, but since Fleshtone was coloured in 2011, this has been Zukerman’s most ambitious project.

The Beniffer LP is marbled clear, black and green and comes in an ornately silkscreened cover. It is a split with Brighton, UK scene survivor Dylan Nyoukis (Blood Stereo, Prick Decay), whose influence has been tantamount in experimental areas of modern composition since the early ’90s. The two have been supporters of each other for many years now so a split LP makes perfect sense given their similar visions. Nyoukis also runs the envelope-pushing (albeit one full of psychedelic drugs) Chocolate Monk label which released the amazing AREA. This is music arranged to be chaotic, heavily inspired by ideas commissioned during 20th century composition’s heyday rather than pop and rock’s obsessions with keeping time and marching to repetition. If anything, this is music that aims to break down those conditioning influences.